noun:

• gaining some and losing some; (something having its) advantages and disadvantages - four character idiom

noun:

• rice boiled with soy sauce and sake

noun:

• foxtail wedged tenon joint; blind tenon joint with wedges inserted into slots on its end - Architecture term

~の noun:

• cute and pretty - from 奇麗+可愛い - slang

noun:

• raising crops and livestock

noun:

• era during mid-1990s dominated by grand champions Akebono and Takanohana II - Sumo term ➜ 曙貴時代

noun:

• silly questions and silly answers; a silly dialogue - four character idiom

noun:

• abandoning artifice and just being oneself; doing nothing and taking things as they come - four character idiom
• unconditioned nature; unconditioned spontaneity - Buddhism term

noun:

• first knuckle joint

noun:

• pot dish with white flesh fish and shottsuru sauce (Akita regional dish) ➜ 塩汁【しょっつる】

noun:

• office and rank; an official rank

noun:

• the dots of i's and the crosses of t's; (not neglecting) the slightest details - four character idiom ➜ 一点一画もおろそかにしない

noun:

• door made of one or several wooden planks and no door framework ➜ 桟唐戸

noun:

• method of dyeing in which a color repeatedly goes from dense to diffuse, diffuse to dense - imported from western China and used in Buddhist pictures, temple ornaments, etc., during the Nara and Heian periods

noun:

• one's wife, children, and other relations; one's whole family - four character idiom

noun:

• Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

noun:

• right and wrong; right or wrong - four character idiom

noun:

• Russia and Manchuria

noun:

• health and longevity; enjoying a long and healthy life being untouched by disaster - four character idiom

noun:

• Japan and China

noun:

• fish and shellfish

noun / adjectival noun:

• honest and straightforward to a fault - four character idiom

noun:

• fish sauce made of salted and fermented sardines, mackerel, or squid; a specialty of the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture

noun:

• ashes and dust

noun / adjectival noun:

• beneficial and harmless - four character idiom